Impact of dizziness and obesity on the prevalence of falls and fall-related injuries

Laryngoscope

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2797-2801

  Lin, Harrison W ^a   Bhattacharyya, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dizziness; Fall; Injury; Obesity; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIZZINESS; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84912079152     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.24806     Document Type: Article

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